Speakers: Melissa Cheyney, Micknal Arefaine, Allison Cummins
Facilitator: Jane Houston
The Quality Maternal and Newborn Care (QMNC) Research Alliance works to transform global knowledge production by addressing fundamental questions of epistemic justice: whose voices count and who participates in creating knowledge. Emerging from the 2014 Lancet Series on Midwifery, the Alliance recognizes that research inequities persist globally, with dominant narratives often excluding critical perspectives from diverse practitioners and communities.
QMNC’s collaborative approach deliberately centers LMIC voices, particularly emphasizing the integral role of midwifery knowledge. By fostering international partnerships across researchers, clinicians, advocates, and policymakers, the Alliance creates pathways for equitable participation in knowledge creation and dissemination. This model challenges traditional hierarchies that have historically privileged certain forms of expertise while dismissing others.
Through its mission to promote research that helps all childbearing families “survive, thrive, and transform lives,” QMNC demonstrates how epistemic justice serves as a foundation for improving maternal and newborn outcomes worldwide.
Speakers: Angelica Mercedes Lozano Rivera, Marlene Magallanes Corimanya & Lalescka Araceli Soria Gonzales
Facilitator: Marcela Mendoza
Introduccion: La anticoncepción postaborto es vital para reducir embarazos no deseados y prevenir la mortalidad materna.
Objetivo: Determinar si la nacionalidad y la edad están asociadas con el uso de anticonceptivos prescritos en el postaborto, tras un seguimiento de seis meses.
Metodos: Se realizaun estudio observacional analitico con mujeres que aceptaron un mettodo anticonceptivo inmediatamente despues de un aborto en un hospital publico peruano (N = 399). De ellas, se contactó telefónicamente a 175 participantes seis meses después.
Resultados: Solo el 39,42% de las mujeres mantuvo el uso del método anticonceptivo. Se hallo una asociacion significativa entre la edad (p = 0,049) y la nacionalidad venezolana (p = 0,043) con el uso de metodos anticonceptivos seis meses despues del aborto.
Conclusion: Seis meses después del alta hospitalaria, se observa una asociación entre el uso de métodos anticonceptivos postaborto y las variables edad y nacionalidad.
Introduction: Post-abortion contraception is vital to reduce unwanted pregnancies and prevent maternal mortality.
Objective: To determine whether nationality and age are associated with the use of prescribed contraceptives in the post-abortion period, after a six-month follow-up.
Methods: An analytical observational study was conducted with women who accepted a contraceptive method immediately after an abortion in a Peruvian public hospital (N = 399). Of these, 175 participants were contacted by telephone six months later.
Results: Only 39.42% of the women continued using the contraceptive method. A significant association was found between age (p = 0.049) and Venezuelan nationality (p = 0.043) with the use of contraceptive methods six months after the abortion.
Conclusion: Six months after hospital discharge, an association was observed between the use of post-abortion contraceptive methods and the variables age and nationality.
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Speaker: Elsie Gayle
Facilitator: Celine Lemay
Mothers and Babies of African Descent have some of the poorest outcomes of the childbearing continuum irrespective of their gross national income (GNI) per capita, whether low, medium or high income countries.
The establishment of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent at the United Nations (Geneva) in December 2022 began the journey to create a dedicated forum to focus on midwives and mothers who are on the ground delivering and receiving maternity care within those communities. Mother and Midwives Across the Diaspora has made intervention at each Permanent Forum Session to support this work.
The aim of the presentation is to share the journey to date of this unique network, to refocus on the value of midwifery to ameliorating mortality and morbidity of Black mothers and babies worldwide. It will describe the approach being used to garner the knowledge and skills of midwives across the world, utilising every means of supporting professional and vocational approaches to achieve its aims. It will share outcomes and achievements. The presentation will welcome ongoing support of delegates in the furthering of good global midwifery relationships.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/permanent-forum-people-african-descent
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